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A weak and embarassing documentary. It begins with a ridiculous text saying that the world has extremist ideologies nowadays, as if the segment of Brazilians who opposed the coup and defended democracy could be labeled as extremist the same way as those who supported the coup desguised as impeachment (many testimonies would repeat this view of two fanatical mirrored sides throughout the film). After that, the director and the writer had the weird choice to mix uncredited interviews (a few curious or informative but most of them bad and shallow ones) with images of other people (they would have been good photographs) than the ones who talk, with a kitsch dissonant song. In the final part, director explores what would be the equivalent polarization in other parts of the world. Firstly, he shows the same kind of images and interviews in the United States, intending to highlight the existing similarities between both cases. There is no problem in that comparison between both countries; the real problem, again, is the idea present in the sentence in the very beginning which suggests that opposers to Donald Trump as extremists as Ku-Kux-Klan. Then everything worsens and they move to Berlin Wall (!!!) and mention walls that other countries build in order to avoid foreigers' enter (!!!!). Afterwards, the comparison goes to Israel, as if the wall had not been built by one of the two sides, the most powerful one, and Palestine population did not live as second-class people. The bizarre outcome is a political film made without political knowledge basis, lots of conventional wisdom and an acritical love for the chosen metaphor of the wall.